November 26, 2024

  Photo: Paul Michaud/Sci-Fi Channel/Everett Collection Before streaming platforms forever altered the way we watch and consume entertainment, quantifying everything into easy-to-search, algorithmically managed apps, we used to just stumble across things on cable that felt like dreams. Maybe we’d forget about them almost immediately, but they’d remain a part of our consciousness, influencing our …

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  Photo: Disney Moana has always had it pretty good, as far as Disney princesses go. No one’s trying to marry her off against her will or keep her confined to a castle. She instead has spent her life preparing to inherit a leadership role on her island home of Motunui, where everyone seems to …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: A24 It’s that time of year again! As you put together your shopping list for friends and family members this season, don’t forget to keep up the fight for physical media. As more and more people turn away from discs to embrace digital libraries, those who still love to own their …

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  Photo: Advocate Channel via YouTube On the ever-curdling internet, where misinformation reigns supreme and the general vibe is tragic, it’s important to enjoy things while you still can. Because, usually, the enjoyable gets annoying too — like the Hawk Tuah girl becoming a media darling. So it’s with joy that we can officially report …

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  Photo: NBC Bruce Dickinson puts his pants on, just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except once his pants are on, he makes gold records. Such is the premise of Saturday Night Live’s Mount Rushmore of a sketch “More Cowbell,” with the music producer (Christopher Walken) trying to iron out …

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  Photo: Bravo Tonight’s episode picks up from last week’s 3:15am crash cliffhanger, which I’ll be honest, I totally forgot about because we know they’re not really going to crash. As soon as that little 1 percent of me starts believing they might, of course the ships somehow turn to be more parallel than perpendicular. …

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  Video: Paramount Pictures For most people, Russell Crowe broke into the American film scene as detective Bud White in 1997’s L.A. Confidential. It was an ideal marriage of actor and role: the burly, snub-nosed Crowe playing a crooked L.A. cop waking up to the breadth of the police’s corruption and raging accordingly. But for …

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